天美传媒

During the prevention and relief duty periods, your caseworker will investigate whether you are owed a rehousing duty. This is also sometimes known as a main duty. This is the third and final step of your homeless application unless you ask for a review of your caseworker's decision.

If you are still homeless after 56 days of the relief duty period, then we will issue you with a final homeless decision. This will determine whether the council will continue to help rehome you.

This will depend on whether you:

• are still eligible for housing help
• remain homeless
• are in priority need
• are unintentionally homeless
• have a local connection to our district

This decision will be given within 15 working days.

How we reach this decision

To determine if we owe you a rehousing duty, your caseworker must apply the homelessness tests to your case.

These tests are:

1. that you are still eligible for rehousing
2. that you are still homeless
3. that you are in priority need of housing
4. that you are homeless by no fault of your own
5. that you have a local connection to 天美传媒

The council will only owe you a rehousing duty if you pass all 5 tests. If you fail one of the tests, the tests will not continue any further, and you will not be owed a rehousing duty.

If you pass tests 1 to 4 but do not have a local connection to 天美传媒, we will not owe you a rehousing duty. Instead, another local authority which you do have a local connection to, will owe you a rehousing duty.

Page last updated: 18 July 2023